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Good dim sum outside of Chinatown

By adamg on Tue, 05/03/2016 - 7:52am

Benny Wong asks:

I have been looking for a good Dim Sum location not in Chinatown.

Neighborhoods: 
Boston
Topics: 
Dining
Chinese food


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Comments

By adamg on Tue, 05/03/2016 - 7:54am.

By MC Slim JB on Tue, 05/03/2016 - 8:54am.

Sun Kong in Malden, see I've been beaten to the punch by Twitter.

I've sampled the dim sum at New China Pearl in Woburn on a weekday, can't recommend it; it may be better on weekends when it is served at volume.

By anon on Tue, 05/03/2016 - 9:10am.

on Morrissey Blvd is owned by the same family who runs Chau Chow City in Chinatown.

By BB from Dot on Tue, 05/03/2016 - 10:05am.

I second Chau Chow in Dorchester. In addition to the dim sum being good, they have a parking lot.

By tachometer on Tue, 05/03/2016 - 10:23am.

Some days when they are packed (e.g. mother's day, Chinese New Year) they have attendants directing the parking in the lot and on the street nearby.

By jlm on Tue, 05/03/2016 - 10:28am.

It's been a few years since my last visit, but I remember enjoying the Dim Sum offering at House of Chang in Cambridge. It's located between Harvard and Fresh Pond directly on Concord Ave.

By anon on Tue, 05/03/2016 - 11:11am.

Green Tea has it on weekends. There is parking.
24 Elliot St, Newton Ma 02461
http://www.greenteanewton.com/

Shanghai Gate has some limited dim sum items on weekends.
204 Harvard Avenue Allston, MA 02134
http://shanghaigateboston.com/Menu/weekend.pdf

ChangSho has a "Sunday Brunch" with dim sum items
1712 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge
http://changshorestaurant.com/menu/

House of Chang offers Dim Sum on the weekends
282 Concord Ave Cambridge, MA 02138
http://www.houseofchangcambridge.com/DimSum.pdf

If you are up North, you could try North Garden Restaurant. They have it weekends and Mondays.
715 Mast Rd Manchester, NH 03102
http://www.northgardenrestaurant.com/dimsummenu.html

By Freddy Benson on Tue, 05/03/2016 - 1:50pm.

I can tell you where not to go:

Jumbo in newton is AWFUL. Unless they changed the chef in the last 2 years, it was not very good at all - the regular stuff you'd expect but bland, soggy or not tasting right

Shanghai Gate is an awesome restaurant and the dim sum is actually more of a Shanghaiese brunch, so you aren't going to get egg tarts or the same sort of buns you'd expect - it is pretty great but just setting expectations.

New China Pearl in Woburn is your best bet since management changed.

China Pearl in Quincy is hit or miss - I think it is inconsistent across the board. How the Hell can you not have egg tarts or char siu bao on a Sunday?

Dim Sum is specific to Chinese Cantonese - so really, anything else is just Chinese brunch if you're not in a Cantonese place. That being said, it really depends what you are looking for. Taiwanese places have things that may not be big for some people, like salted duck embyro salad - to each their own.

Green tea lost my vote since they took away the touch in the pupu platter.

By DanH on Tue, 05/03/2016 - 5:42pm.

Yangtze River in Lexington has all-you-can-eat dim sum on the weekend. There are carts and also a buffet with some dim-sum items and some non-dim-sum regular dishes.

By Dot net on Wed, 05/04/2016 - 6:56am.

I highly recommend Grand Chinatown on Billings Rd in Quincy over the China Pearl, if you don't mind waiting a bit longer. The food at Grand Chinatown is much more consistent, probably because China Pearl in Quincy is humongous.